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BOOK REVIEW: TO THE WARM HORIZON BY CHOI JIN-YOUNG

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BOOK REVIEW: TO THE WARM HORIZON BY CHOI JIN-YOUNG
Article
https://asiamedia.lmu.edu/2021/09/04/book-review-to-the-warm-horizon-by-choi-jin-young/
Journal
Asia Media International
Issued Date
September 04, 2021
Page
-
Language
English(English)
Country
UNITED STATES
City
-
Book
To the warm horizon
Writer
Choi Jin Young
Translator
Soje

About the Author

Choi Jin Young
  • Choi Jin-Young
  • Birth : 1981 ~ -
  • Occupation : Novelist
  • First Name : Jin Young
  • Family Name : Choi
  • Korean Name : 최진영
  • ISNI : 0000000460166053
  • Works : 8
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  • English(English)

BRIANNA HIRAMI WRITES — Choi Jin-Young’s To The Warm Horizon (2021) captivates its readers by revealing the dark and difficult truth surrounding human nature. However, we come to understand that there is often love and glimpses of hope throughout periods of complete chaos. This page-turning novel starts off by briskly and adeptly describing the horrific state that the world is in through the point-of-view of four different voices. The entire world, including Korea, has been infected by a deadly and highly contagious disease that devastated normal life. Family and friends are dying left and right while rape, robbery, and violence are common occurrences. The lesson is quickly learned by those who survive: nobody can be trusted. Against this grim backdrop, the superb novel’s two main protagonists, Dori and Jina, manage to find love with each other despite everything. They share similar stories of trauma: they both experienced the loss of many of their family members and are both on the run to find somewhere better than Korea. Dori joins Jina and her family on their journey to find a safer place beyond the border. Another character, Ryu, demonstrates how people can live without a sense of passion or drive. She continuously reflects on her life before the outbreak and realizes how mundane and unfulfilling that previous life was. Despite this, she took the life she lived, although disappointing and stressful, for granted. However, along all their journeys, the three of them encounter unimaginable suffering that intensifies the worst parts of humanity and witness how easily humans can revert to evil when given the chance.

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